Listener comments!

Wed. 5/1/13 11:47am
listener james from westwood:
"mad men" echoed your last wed. show's playlist by featuring "love is blue" over the credits of last sun's ep.

Wed. 5/1/13 11:56am
listener james from westwood:
(they actually played an "fmu hit" the week before: "bonnie and clyde." if they play silver apples or the vu later in this season i will likely lose my mind.)

Wed. 5/1/13 12:16pm
Uncle Michael:
I've heard that I could watch other things on the baseball screen but I've never tried it. It's true?

Wed. 5/1/13 12:16pm
Matt from Springfield:
Whew, great timing!
@LJFW: Not a Mad Men Maniac (myself), but read a blog post about that episode, on reactions to MLK's death. "Love Is Blue" rocked the A/C charts in '68, so good chronological placement.

Wed. 5/1/13 12:20pm
listener james from westwood:
heh, haven't heard this trek tune since ferever!
matt, the right folding money into the right serviceperson's hand can work wonders. just watch for their truck outside the building. but you didn't hear it from me.

Wed. 5/1/13 12:21pm
Uncle Michael:
There have been a lot of bands called The Firm.

Wed. 5/1/13 12:22pm
Uncle Michael:
Some guys in Omaha were already called The Firm when Page's band released their debut. Three of the members of the band were lawyers. The trademark had been registered. They sued and settled. The fourth guy in the band managed the record store where I traded.

Wed. 5/1/13 12:23pm
Artie:
And yet very few bands named The Softies. Self image issues I suppose.

Wed. 5/1/13 12:23pm
listener james from westwood:
amanda, are you caught up w the end of last season's "mm," or are you still working thru earlier seasons? (and apologies for blabbing, btw. npr spoiled a hyooge moment in another currently popular cable drama for me, so i know the feeling.)

Wed. 5/1/13 12:27pm
Matt F:
I can speak for Amanda, who is probably too busy to type a full response, when I say that we are caught up through the first couple of episodes of this current season but we didn't manage to get invited to the home of someone with cable last week.

Wed. 5/1/13 12:28pm
Amanda:
I'm caught up with last season, and with the first three episodes of this season. It's my favorite show, maybe ever*, but certainly my favorite that is currently on.

Wed. 5/1/13 12:30pm
listener james from westwood:
with you on the young ones. pivotal moment in my sense of humor, that show was.
i don't have cable, so it's itunes for mm, breaking bad, and parks & rec for me. i suspended netflix when work and life kept me from viewing the discs i was getting but loved it when i had it.

Wed. 5/1/13 12:32pm
Matt F:
They didn't play Dream Police, but Robin Zander did put on the Dream Police hat at some point during the set.

Wed. 5/1/13 12:32pm
Danne D:
Saw Cheap Trick at Mabel's back when I was in college. I think Robin Zander actually was in town checking out U of I with his son. And now his son is old enough that soon enough he'll take his son (if he has one) to check out colleges like the U of I

Wed. 5/1/13 12:37pm
Nate K:
I saw Cheap Trick play 4 songs in a thunder storm at Coney Island. They were shut down by the Man (the plug literally pulled) just as Rick made a gallant effort to transition from whatever song they were playing into "Surrender," knowing it would be their last song.They played "California Man," which I've always loved and "He's a Whore" Good times. Robin Zander looked like a Rob Halford impersonator who forgot to shave his head.

Wed. 5/1/13 1:43pm
Rich in Washington:
@Amanda: You may have a point there. I think Dr. D completely warped my music sensibility when I was in the 7th grade, when other boys were getting into KISS, etc..
But then, I remember feeling kinda dorky about having listened to that show much later on.

Wed. 5/1/13 1:47pm
northguineahills:
Yeah, I used to listen to Dr. Demento all the time on Armed Forces Radio from age 10-12, and only listened to a few popular things aside from the Violent Femmes, but that not too far from Dr. Demento territory.

Wed. 5/1/13 1:47pm
Carmichael:
I like any song that refers to a woman as "mama".

Wed. 5/1/13 1:50pm
efd:
Hi Amanda and all! I've been in and out during the show, but I liked what I heard while I was in!